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on 30 April 2005
Saturday

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Moon phase on 30 April 2005 Saturday is

Waning Gibbous, 21 days old Moon is in
Aquarius.

Moon phase for30 April

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Waning Gibbous phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 59%

illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on 30 April 2005,
Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the
Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days
old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

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6 days after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before
6 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is
visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after
midnight.

Moon is entering Aquarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of Aquarius tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1973" and ∠1904".

Pink Moon before 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2005 after
23 days on 23 May 2005 at 20:18.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Last Quarter in Aquarius after 1 day on

1 May 2005 at 06:24

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New Moon in Taurus after 7 days on

8 May 2005 at 08:45

First Quarter in Leo after 15 days on

16 May 2005 at 08:56

Full Moon in Scorpio after 23 days on

23 May 2005 at 20:18

Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and
Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at
very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is
moderate.

Lunation 65 / 1018
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the middle to the last part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 65 of Meeus index or
1018 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.51

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and
13 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than the next
lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic
months are going to increasing with the true anomaly
getting closer to the value it has at the point of New
Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes
shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is
5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st
century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 30

April 2005 Saturday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 62.3°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠62.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the
true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 29 April 2005 at 09:59
in Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while
the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep
this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon
reaches the point of next apogee on 14 May 2005 at
13:41 in Cancer.

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Distance to Moon 363 299 km

The Moon is 363 299 km (225 744 mi) away from
Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until
the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going
to be 404 601 km (251 407 mi).

Moon before ascending node

6 days after descending node on 23 April 2005 at
13:30 in Libra. The Moon is located south of the
ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from South to North in ascending node on
6 May 2005 at 10:56 in Aries.

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Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Aries, the Moon is navigating from the
second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the previous standstill on 28 April 2005 at
15:55 in Sagittarius when the Moon has reached
South declination of ∠-28.359°, the lunar orbit is
extending northward over the next 11 days to face
maximum declination of ∠28.317° at the point of next
northern standstill on 12 May 2005 at 00:42 in
Cancer.

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Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 8 May 2005 at 08:45 in Taurus the
Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric
conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

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fl Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary
Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak,
 www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space

Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio,
 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

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